The Disney Frontier Blog

On October 30th, my family and I attended Mickey’s Halloween Treat in Disney’s California Adventure. We have annual passes but we thought the kids would love it, so we paid the extra $27 per person for the tickets. The idea of trick or treating from Disney characters sounded too fun to pass up.

DCA closed at 5:00 PM to prepare the park and reopened at 6:00 PM. There wasn’t much of a line to get into the park. Once in, they handed each of us a trick or treat bag…it was a little bigger than a brown paper lunch bag. We also got a special Mickey’s Halloween Treat map. The map showed all of DCA, but also showed where each of the trick or treat stations were as well as the location of character meet and greets and Mickey’s Hide and Go Treat Trails. Since most the traffic was heading to Candy Corn Acres and beyond, we took a right and headed towards California Soarin. We hit our first station just pass the attraction queue line.

I was shocked to see the two cast members grab two full handfuls of candy to put in each of our bags. They definitely were not being stingy. I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t characters helping hand out candy, but oh well. Heading further up the right side of the park, we came to the first Hide and Go Treat Trail. It was located at the entrance to Grizzly River Run and snaked through part of the ride’s queue area. About every 100 yards or so there was a trick or treat station. After about 5 stations, we exited near the Redwood Creek Challenge, the second Hide and Go trail. After going through that station, we must have hit a total of 12 of the 25 treat stations since entering the park. All our bags were over flowing and heavy.

After realizing we had enough candy to last us until next year, we decided to wait in the line to get the kids photo with Mickey and Minnie. The line lasted about 30 minutes and was a good chance to stop, eat some candy and relax. Once during the line, Mickey and Minnie took a five minute break but Cruella and some cowboys were walking the line keeping people entertained.

Next we headed over the Pacific Wharf where they had decorated in a pirates theme and called it Pirate Wharf. There was a live band and fun games and activities for the kids.Next we hit “a bug’s land” and waited in line to ride Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train and Flik’s Flyers. I don’t think I have ever waited in a line at either of those two rides, but we had to this time. It was still less than 10 minutes though.

After that we headed to the front of Sunshine Plaza to wait for “Mickey’s Trick or Treat of the Street” Cavalcade Parade.The parade was a little late and by then the kids were about done. It was a small parade with just a few floats. The characters did get down and interact with the kids a la the Block Party Parade.

Overall, it was a lot of fun. I’ve been in the park when it wasn’t crowded but they purposely limited the crowd for this event. It was pretty neat to be in the park with that few people - I imagine that it’s similar to grad night. They had music playing through out the park the entire night. I was able to make out the following songs:

• Elephants on Parade - From Peter Pan
• Woozles Song from the Pooh Hunny Pots ride
• Grim Grinning Ghosts - From the Haunted Mansion
• Monster Mash
• This is Halloween - From Nightmare Before Christmas

They also interspersed Disney pop artists throughout.

The candy selection was very nice. They had a wide mix of chocolate and hard candies as well as bags of carrots and apples. The candy was plenty and if we wanted to, we could have left with twice as much as we did. I’m not sure if we will go back next year…I’m looking forward to trick or treating in our neighborhood but I do recommend it. I have more photos which I will be posting up shortly.